Rare freaky fish found in Canadian Arctic

The Long Nosed Chimaera displays traits from both a shark and a stingray.
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What is that?

According to a researcher at a Canadian university, it is a rarely seen fish from the arctic.

Nigel Hussey, a researcher who works with the Ocean Tracking Network tells CBC News, that the fish is a mysterious breed known as a "long-nosed chimaera." The photo of this fish–which has only been caught one other time– has gone viral across the Internet.

The fish was reeled in by a fishing boat along the Davis Strait in Nunavut, the northernmost territory in Canada and was mistaken as another breed of fish known as a goblin shark.

"Only one of these fish has previously been documented from the Hudson Strait," Hussey said to CBC. "Potentially, if we fish deeper, maybe between 1,000 and 2,000 meters [3,000 to 6,000 feet], we could find that's there's actually quite a lot of them there. We just don't know."